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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Vatican
City, 10 July 2013 (VIS) - “In the Footsteps of the Lord” is the
title of the exhibition which will accompany the 28th World Youth Day
in Rio de Janeiro. The exhibition, organised by the John Paul II
Youth Foundation of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, will be
open from 9 July to 12 October in the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
in the carioca capital.

“In
the Footsteps of the Lord” presents a series of works, objets d'art
and manuscripts grouped into four sections: “Christ, the way of
salvation”, “Vocation and mission of the Apostles”; “Mary,
the road leading to Christ”, and “The saints: models to emulate”,
all inspired by the theme of the World Youth Day, “Go and make
disciples of all nations”.

“Christ,
the way of salvation” includes works on the life of Jesus, the
passion and the resurrection, Thomas' disbelief, and the parables of
the adulteress and the good Samaritan, as well as an important
section dedicated to the image of Christ. The exhibition opens with
the celebrated Mandylion of Edessa, venerated as an acheiropoieta or
image made not with human hands, regarded as a true image of the
Saviour. The exhibition includes other prestigious works by, among
others, Beato Angelico, Melozzo da Forli, Leonardo da Vinci, Bernini,
Correggio, Guercino and Lorenzo Lotto, whose “Christ and the
Adulteress” was recently restored by the Vatican Museums. The
Christological image of the Turin Shroud will also be displayed in
the form of the photograph taken by Secondo Pia in 1898.

The
works in the second section are linked to the theme of the call of
the Apostles, such as the diptych of St. Peter and St. Paul dating
from the third and fourth centuries, on loan from the Vatican
Museums, and works by Pomarancio and de Ribera.

The
section dedicated to “Mary, the road leading to Christ”
juxtaposes works from both eastern and western traditions: Byzantine
icons are displayed alongside Pinturicchio's celebrated “Madonna of
the Window-Sill” and works by Michelangelo, Sassoferrato and
Perugino.

Finally,
the fourth section consists of depictions of the most renowned
saints.

-
appointed Msgr. Pedro Alberto Bustamante Lopez, of the clergy of
Arequipa, Peru, as bishop of the prelature of Sicuani (area 15,800,
population 301,000, Catholics 259,000, priests 16, religious 23),
Peru. The bishop-elect was born in Cotaparaco, Peru in 1965 and was
ordained a priest in 1992. He holds a licentiate in dogmatic theology
from the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome. He has served in
pastoral roles in the parishes of Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion,
Santa Gertrudis and San Agustin – El Sagragio. He has also served
as pro-vicar general, episcopal vicar and vicar general of the
archdiocese of Arequipa. He succeeds Bishop Miguel La Fay Bardi, O.
Carm., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same prelature
the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

-
appointed Fr. Andrew Nkea Fuanya, of the clergy of Buea, as coadjutor
bishop of Mamfe (area 10,500, population 320,000, Catholics 92,000,
priests 39, religious 14), Cameroon. The bishop-elect was born in
Widikum, Cameroon in 1965 and was ordained a priest in 1992. He holds
a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Urban University and has
served as member of the commission for the doctrine of the National
Episcopal Conference, judicial vicar of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal
of the province of Bamenda, secretary general of the Episcopal
Conference of the province of Bamenda, president of the Canon Law
Assocation in Cameroon, and secretary general of the Catholic
University of Cameroon.

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appointed Fr. Abdallah Elias Zaidan, M.L., as bishop of Our Lady of
Lebanon of Los Angeles (Catholics 24,108, priests 39, permanent
deacons 8, religious 15), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in
Kosaybe, Lebanon in 1963 and ordained a priest in 1986. He has served
in a number of pastoral roles, including adjunct rector in the
cathedral of Our Lady of Lebanon in Brooklyn, rector of Our Lady of
Mount Lebanon – St. Peter in Los Angeles, protopresbyter, member of
the Episcopal Council of the south-west and north-west zone of the
Maronite Eparchy of Los Angeles, member of the Tele-Lumiere Council
of America, coordinator of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal, member of the
Sexual Abuse Board, and member of Caritas Liban. He succeeds Bishop
Robert Joseph Shaheen, whose resignation from the pastoral care of
the same eparchy the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with Canon
210, para. 1 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.